The Postal Officers' Union ( fi, Postin Toimihenkilöliitto, PVL) was a trade union representing postal service workers in Finland. The union was founded in 1894 in Helsinki, as the Finnish Postal Union. It did not represent all workers in the postal service, but only officers whose jobs required them to undertake specific training and demonstrate their language skills; other workers joined the

Postal Union The Postal Union ( fi, Postiliitto) was a trade union representing postal workers in Finland. The first conference of postal service workers in Finland was held in 1901, but only in 1906 did they agree to form a union, at a meeting in Tampe ...

. For many years, the union was affiliated to the

Finnish Confederation of Professionals The Finnish Confederation of Professionals (STTK) ( fi, Toimihenkilökeskusjärjestö, sv, Tjänstemannacentralorganisationen) is a trade union confederation in Finland. It has a membership of 650,000 and represents salaried employees in Finland ...

(STTK). By 2000, the distinction between officers and other workers no longer existed, and the union began collaborating more closely with the Postal Union. In order to facilitate a merger, in 2003 it resigned from the STTK and joined the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions. By this point, the union had around 5,000 members. In 2005, the union merged with the Postal Union, to form the

Post and Logistics Union The Post and Logistics Union ( fi, Posti- ja logistiikka-alan unioni, PAU) is a trade union, principally representing postal workers, in Finland. The union was founded on 1 June 2005, when the Postal Union merged with the Postal Officers' Union ...

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Postal trade unions Trade unions in Finland Trade unions established in 1894 Trade unions disestablished in 2005